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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2013
    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Based on worldwide experience and encouraging evidence from country pilots in African countries such as Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania,and Uganda, this new report suggests a series of ten steps that may help to revolutionise agricultural production and eradicate poverty in Africa. These steps include improving tenure security over individual and communal lands, increasing land access and tenure for poor and vulnerable families, resolving land disputes, managing better public land, and increasing efficiency and transparency in land administration services. 

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2012
    Ghana, Africa

    For Ghana's national REDD plus scheme to be viable, the rights to carbon or the emission credits generated must be clearly delineated, and be accompanied by equitable and efficient benefit sharing systems. There are a number of approaches that the State can use to determine whom to vest the right to carbon in. If defined as a natural resource, the state would be vested with the rights. If recognized as an ecosystem service, then the right to the benefits would be vested in the owner of the trees.

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    Land Degradation and Population Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Machakos Experience cover image
    Reports & Research
    August, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    An issue which has generated much
    concern has been the potential link between low incomes and
    resource degradation. This report presents the results of a
    study which investigated this question. Machakos District is
    a relatively low income and agriculturally marginal district
    in Kenya. Before World War II the colonial administration
    was concerned that land degradation was becoming severe
    under the pressure of population, aggravated by drought. The

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